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"The liberalisation and privatisation of public sector activities have been the subject of heated debate since the 1970s. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by analysing the effects of liberalisation and privatisation on productivity and service provision, employment, wages and working conditions in a number of European countries. The focus is on the service sector, which has been the main source of employment growth in recent years."

"The failures of British railways since their privatisation in the 1990s have become increasingly evident: rising fares, delays and corporate collapses. Last year, the government announced reform plans to address the fragmentation of the franchise-based system and create a single body that is responsible for the railways of Great Britain. However, unions, campaigners and the majority of the public want to go even further, with mass support for public ownership, which is already happening in the devolved administrations of Wales and Scotland."

"This article is an account of an interview with Prof. Dr. Dragoslav Avramović, who has had a long and varied career as a statesman in both Yugoslav and international politics, including being Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia between 1994 and 1996. The SEER was interested in Professor Avramović's views on a number of issues, including privatisation, the labour market, and the contemporary economic, political and social trends in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The interview was conducted on January 4 1999 by Dr. Darko Marinković."

"Les échecs du chemin de fer britannique depuis sa privatisation dans les années 1990 sont de plus en plus évidents, notamment la hausse des tarifs, les retards et les faillites d'entreprises. L'année dernière, le gouvernement de Boris Johnson a annoncé des projets de réforme visant à remédier à la fragmentation d'un système basé sur les franchises et à créer un organisme unique responsable des chemins de fer de Grande-Bretagne. Cependant, les syndicats, les activistes et une grande partie du public souhaitent aller encore plus loin et soutiennent largement la propriété publique, ce qui est déjà le cas dans les administrations décentralisées du Pays de Galles et de l'Écosse."

"Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in transition, which term applies to the transformation of state-owned, or socially-owned, property into private property. This is an essential process but, due both to the given circumstances and the political and economic situation in the country, its implementation is difficult. Thew article discusses the problems privatisation is facing in Bosnia and Herzegovina starting with the post-war conditions in a destroyed country, social and psychological factors such as fear of the unknown, the situation of returning refugies, legal problems based on the Dayton agreement and economic legislation, privatisation of appartments etc."

"Privatization and deregulation have created the conditions for the rise of the regulatory state to replace the dirigiste state of the past. Reliance on regulation ? rather than public ownership, planning or centralised administration — characterises the methods of the regulatory state. This study examines the growth of regulation in Europe, at the national and Community levels. It stresses the advantages of this mode of policy making, but also recognises its problems. It is suggested that political accountability can be ensured by a variety of substantive and procedural controls, among which judicial review is especially important. Executive oversight and co?ordination may be improved by using new tools of public management like the regulatory budget or the regulatory clearing house."

"Since 1981 close to forty countries have introduced systemic pension reforms that have replaced all or part of prior pay-as-you-go (PAYG) schemes with privately managed funded defined contribution (FDC) pillars or systems. However, over the past decade about half of these countries have subsequently cutback on, or entirely eliminated, these FDC schemes. In this article we explore some of the reasons why this reversal is often taking place in developing countries. As part of our analysis we propose a new pension reform typology that goes beyond the commonly used dichotomy between PAYG and pension privatization. We identify and discuss four factors that are of particular relevance to those seeking to understand the pension policy reversals that have been taking place in many developing countries: low pension coverage and incentive incompatibility, triple burden costs, tradeoffs between pension reforms and social pensions, and difficulties with annuitization."

" The Israeli doctors' and social workers' campaigns of 2011 had many characteristics in common, but very different results. This article asserts that the differences stem from the different modes of privatization in the two sectors which reflect the importance of each sector in the neoliberal capital accumulation regime, which in turn affects the outcome of the workers' struggles. While neoliberalism may undermine organized labour in general, it has uneven effects, benefiting some workers and undermining others. Thus we should pay attention to how privatization is implemented in different public sectors within the same country to better understand ‘actually existing neoliberalism'."